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Description: Learn an improved chromatin immunoprecipitation protocol for gene regulation studies using adult mouse skeletal muscle. This method enables reliable preparation of ChIP-grade chromatin from resistant tissue.

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We thank all the staff of the IGBMC high throughput sequencing facility, a member of &#34;France G&#233;nomique&#34; consortium (ANR10-INBS-09-08) and all IGBMC general services in particular the staff of the IGBMC animal facility. This work was supported by grants from the CNRS, the INSERM, the AFM, the Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer, the French state fund through the ANR under the programme Investissements d&#39;Avenir labelled ANR-10-IDEX-0002-02, the Labex INRT ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 and the ANR-AR2GR-16-CE11-009-01. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. S.J was supported by the Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer and the ANR-AR2GR-16-CE11-009-01, and V.U by the Minist&#232;re de l&#39;Enseignement et de la Recherche. ID is an &#39;&#233;quipe labellis&#233;e&#39; of the Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer.

Mice were kept in accordance with the institutional guidelines regarding the care and use of laboratory animals and in accordance with National Animal Care Guidelines (European Commission directive 86/609/CEE; French decree no.87-848). All procedures were approved by the French national ethics committee.
1. Isolation of Muscle Tissue
<ol>
	<li>Sacrifice one adult 6 to 8-week-old mouse by cervical dislocation. Sterlise the limb by rinsing it with 70% ethanol and dissect the hind limb muscles (Gastrocnemius, Tibialis Anterior, Quadriceps) using fine point scissors and forceps. 
	NOTE: One mouse should yield around 500 mg of tissue.</li>
	<li>Mince the muscles in a 2 mL test tube containing 1 mL of ice-cold hypotonic buffer to a homogenous preparation of small (&#60;2 - 3 mm3) pieces using fine scissors and leave the tube shaking on a bench top agitator at 4 &#176;C for 5 - 10 min.</li>
</ol>
2. Tissue Lysis
NOTE: Please refer to Table 1 for all buffer compositions.
<ol>
	<li>Transfer the homogenate to a 14 mL round-bottom tube and resuspend in 5 mL cold hypotonic buffer (EDTA-free protease inhibitor cocktail and PMSF).
	<ol>
		<li>Homogenise the minced muscle tissue using a loose dounce (20 - 30 strokes within 3 min) or a mechanical tissue homogenizer for 15 - 30 s in round-bottom 14 mL tubes. 
		NOTE: The efficiency of lysis can be assessed at this stage by light microscopy, and if required, additional disruption can be performed.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Transfer the homogenate to 15 mL tubes and fill volume to 10 mL using cold hypotonic buffer. Fix the homogenate as described below before proceeding with the next mouse.</li>
</ol>
3. Fixation
<ol>
	<li>Add formaldehyde to 1% final concentration and shake for 10 min at room temperature.</li>
	<li>Add glycine to a final concentration of 0.125 M in each tube to stop fixation and shake for&#160;5 - 10 min at room temperature.</li>
</ol>
4. Nuclei Preparation
NOTE: Please refer to Table 1 for all buffer compositions.
<ol>
	<li>Homogenise the fixed lysate using a loose dounce (5 - 10 strokes).
	<ol>
		<li>Transfer to a 15 mL tube and centrifuge at 1,000 x g for 5 min at 4 &#176;C to obtain nuclei and cellular debris.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Remove the supernatant and resuspend the pellet in fresh 5 mL hypotonic buffer. Filter the lysate through a 70 &#181;m cell strainer into a 50 mL tube. Re-filter the filtrate through a 40 &#181;m cell strainer.</li>
	<li>Transfer the filtrate to a 15 mL tube and centrifuge at 1,000 x g for 5 minutes at 4 &#176;C to obtain the nuclear pellet. 
	NOTE: At this stage, the nuclei can be immediately sonicated, or snap frozen as a dry pellet in liquid nitrogen and stored at -80 &#176;C.</li>
</ol>
5. Sonication
<ol>
	<li>Assess the volume of the nuclear pellet (around 50 &#181;L for both mechanical and dounce homogenisation) and resuspend it in sonication buffer up to 3 to 4 times of packed nuclear volume and sonicate for 10 - 15 min at 4 &#176;C using a sonicator. 
	NOTE: The chromatin can be analysed immediately as described below (6) or frozen and stored at -80 &#176;C.</li>
</ol>
6. Assessing the Chromatin Fragment Size following Sonication
NOTE: Please refer to Table 1 for all buffer compositions.
<ol>
	<li>To de-crosslink, take 30 &#181;L of chromatin in a 1.5 mL test tube and add 20 &#181;L 5 M NaCl. Complete the volume to 500 &#181;L and incubate at 65 &#176;C overnight.
	<ol>
		<li>The next day, perform a treatment with 1 &#181;L proteinase K (20 mg/mL stock), 10 &#181;L 2 M Tris pH 6.8, and 10 &#181;L of 0.5 M EDTA for 1 h at 42 &#176;C. Perform a phenol-chloroform/chloroform extraction and precipitate the DNA with 1 volume of sodium acetate (3 M) and 2 volumes of 100% ethanol for one h at -80 &#176;C or overnight at -20 &#176;C.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Pellet the DNA by centrifugation at 13,500 x g for 15 min. Decant the supernatant and wash the pellet thoroughly with cold 70% ethanol and centrifuge again for 5 min. Decant the supernatant and air-dry the pellet.</li>
	<li>Resuspend the pellet in the original volume (30 &#181;L) of TE buffer. Measure the DNA concentration in a spectrophotometer by absorbance at 260 nm/280 nm. Pipette 500 - 1,000 ng of DNA together with a DNA size ladder on separate lanes of a 1.5% agarose gel and perform electrophoresis to assess the fragment size of chromatin. 
	NOTE: Fragment size should be between 200 - 500 base pairs, and there should be no detectable high molecular weight fragments corresponding to non- or poorly-fragmented DNA. If required, the chromatin solution (step 5) can be re-sonicated for a longer time and then re-analysed as described above until the optimum size is obtained.</li>
</ol>
7. Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP)
NOTE: Please refer to Table 1 for all buffer compositions.
<ol>
	<li>Block the Protein G sepharose beads by aliquoting 1 mL of the 50% slurry in ethanol. Pellet the beads by centrifugation at 400 x g for 1 min in a benchtop centrifuge and wash with 1 mL of TE buffer centrifuge at 400 x g and repeat the wash.
	<ol>
		<li>After the second centrifugation, re-suspend in 1 mL of ChIP dilution buffer with 25 &#181;L of BSA (stock 20 mg/mL) and 20 &#181;L yeast tRNA (stock 10 mg/mL). Block the beads for at least 2 h prior to use by rotation (40 - 60 rpm) at 4 &#176;C.</li>
		<li>Dilute 50 &#181;g of chromatin (step 5) 8 to 10 times using ChIP dilution buffer. Add 50 &#181;L of blocked bead slurry and incubate for 2 h rotating (40-60 rpm) at 4&#176;C. Centrifuge at 400 x g at 4 &#176;C to obtain pre-cleared chromatin and transfer it to a fresh tube.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>For immunoprecipitation, add the appropriate amount of primary antibody (e.g., 1-2 &#181;g per 10 &#181;g of chromatin) and incubate overnight with rotation at 4 &#176;C. 
	NOTE: The optimal amount of antibody may be recommended by the supplier or can be determined empirically by performing ChIP-qPCR with different quantities of antibody until optimum enrichment is observed. Also Protein G sepharose may be replaced by Protein A sepharose depending on the subtype of antibody used.</li>
	<li>Add the blocked beads the next day and incubate for 1 h with rotation (40 - 60 rpm) at 4 &#176;C. Centrifuge at 400 x g for 20 - 30 s to pellet the beads, remove the supernatant, and start the ChIP washes.</li>
	<li>ChIP washes: Perform the following washes with the buffers: once with Low Salt Buffer, and then twice with High Salt Buffer, twice with LiCl Buffer, and finally twice with TE Buffer.
	<ol>
		<li>Perform each wash for 10 min with rotation (40 - 60 rpm) at 4 &#176;C and pellet the beads between each wash by centrifugation at 400 x g for 20 - 30 s in a bench-top centrifuge.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>For elution, remove the last wash and resuspend the beads in 250 &#181;L elution buffer (freshly prepared) for 15 min at room temperature while shaking.</li>
	<li>Centrifuge at 400 x g and collect the eluate in a fresh tube. Perform this step twice and then de-crosslink the eluate overnight with 20 &#181;L NaCl 5 M and 1 &#181;L RNase A (10 mg/mL), treat with proteinase K, and phenol-chloroform/chloroform extract as in Step 6.</li>
	<li>Resuspend in 50 &#181;L of TE buffer and use aliquots for ChIP-qPCR as per standard protocols15 to check the quality of the ChIP.</li>
</ol>

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Here we describe a novel protocol for preparing chromatin from adult mouse skeletal muscles and show that this chromatin is suitable for ChIP experiments that detect transcription factor binding and covalent histone modifications in the muscle fiber nuclei. This protocol involves several critical steps. The first is tissue disruption that can be performed either by dounce or by mechanical shearing. Mechanical shearing is faster and more reproducible, and is therefore the method of choice. Nevertheless, if no suitable app...

Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) coupled to quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and high throughput sequencing (ChIP-seq) have become the methods of choice to study transcription and epigenetic regulation of gene expression in various tissues and cell-types1. This technique allows genome-wide profiling of covalent chromatin modifications, histone variant occupancy, and transcription factor binding2,3.
While performing ChIP from cultured cells is well established, ChIP from mammalian tissues remains more challenging. Preparing chromatin for ChIP involves several critical steps that need to be optimized for every tissue and cell type. Chromatin can be prepared from the cellular lysates of cultured cells or following purification of their nuclei. In the case of mammalian tissues, efficient lysis, formaldehyde fixation, and purification of nuclei are critical in order to ensure optimal recovery of the chromatin. Moreover, the choice of whether to fix the nuclei before or after their purification has to be experimentally determined. Despite these hurdles, ChIP has been successfully performed from tissues such as the liver, testis, or brain4,5,6. In the case of skeletal muscle, disruption of such a physically resistant tissue, which exhibits a high content of structural proteins, and isolation of its nuclei is particularly challenging. Given this specificity, protocols optimized for other tissues do not give satisfactory results for skeletal muscles.
Here we describe a protocol to isolate ChIP-grade chromatin from mouse skeletal muscle tissue that involves physically disrupting the tissue, formaldehyde fixation, and then the isolation of nuclei and sonication. The efficiency of this method to prepare chromatin suitable for ChIP from this tissue was demonstrated by performing ChIP-qPCR and ChIP-seq for various transcription factors, RNA polymerase II, and covalent histone modifications7.
This new technique is much faster than a previously reported protocol8 comprising long collagenase digestion steps during which time, changes in genomic localisation of transcription factors and alterations in gene expression may take place. The rapidity with which the nuclei are isolated and fixed makes the method described here particularly attractive to prepare chromatin that more faithfully captures the native genomic occupancy state. Moreover, although other methods for chromatin isolation or protein extraction from muscle tissue have have been described8,9,10 and used for ChIP-qPCR experiments on selected genes, no ChIP-seq data has been reported using them. The method reported here is suitable for transcription factor and histone modification ChIP-seq, and hence should be also suitable for 3/4C or HiC chromatin conformation capture applications.

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improved protocol for chromatin immunoprecipitation from mouse skeletal muscle

Improved Protocol for Chromatin Immunoprecipitation from Mouse Skeletal Muscle

We describe an efficient and reproducible protocol for the preparation of chromatin from adult mouse skeletal muscle, a physically resistant tissue with a high content of structural proteins. Dissected limb muscles from adult mice are physically disrupted by mechanical homogenisation, or a combination of mincing and douncing, in a hypotonic buffer before formaldehyde fixation of the cell lysate. The fixed nuclei are purified by further cycles of mechanical homogenisation or douncing and sequential filtrations to remove cell debris. The purified nuclei can be sonicated immediately or at a later stage after freezing. The chromatin can be efficiently sonicated and is suitable for chromatin immunoprecipitation experiments, as illustrated by the profiles obtained for transcription factors, RNA polymerase II, and covalent histone modifications. The binding events detected using chromatin prepared by this protocol are predominantly those taking place in the muscle fiber nuclei despite the presence of chromatin from other fiber-associated satellite and endothelial cells. This protocol is therefore adapted to study gene regulation in the adult mouse skeletal muscle.

To isolate nuclei, we performed mechanical homogenization of the dissected and minced muscle tissue for either 15 or 45 s, at 18,000 and 22,000 rpm (see Table of Materials). In all conditions, nuclei could be separated from the tissue debris, but the yield was optimal using the lower speed (Figure 1A-B). Nuclei could also be prepared by douncing for 3 - 5 min (Figure 1A, and data not shown), but ...

A novel protocol for the preparation of chromatin from adult mouse skeletal muscle adapted to the study of gene regulation in muscle fibers by chromatin immunoprecipitation is presented.

We describe an efficient and reproducible protocol for the preparation of chromatin from adult mouse skeletal muscle, a physically resistant tissue with a ...

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